Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 2/2] build-sys: distribute the man pages in the tarball

On 08/05/2010 07:17 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: This says that libvirtd.8 is distributed as part of the tarball, rather than omitted, even though we have rules to regenerate it. I agree that distributing it makes it easier to build from a tarball if you don't have tools to regenerate it, so ACK to this part. However, This says to nuke the distributed man page. Which means 'make && make clean && make' is once again requiring those extra tools. The patch needs to move distributed man pages out of CLEANFILES and into MAINTAINERCLEANFILES. Since only the maintainer is required to have the tools for regenerating the man pages (think 'make dist'), only the maintainer-clean target should nuke existing pages. I'm also wondering if we need a hook in 'make dist' to ensure the man pages are up-to-date (now that the developers don't rebuild it from a fresh tarball, the maintainer should now make sure that a stale copy from incremental builds does not sneak into the tarball). Do you want to make those edits and resubmit, or do you need me to make the tweaks? -- Eric Blake eblake(a)redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org